List of Famous people born in August
Alex Ferreira
Alex Ferreira is an American half-pipe skier. He competed in the 2019 Winter X Games XIX, placing first in the Men's Ski Superpipe.
Dharmapuri Arvind
Dharmapuri Arvind is an Indian politician who is the current Member of Parliament in the Lok Sabha from Nizamabad, Telangana. He played first-class cricket match for Hyderabad in 1995/96. He is the youngest of two sons of D. Srinivas who served as a three time Congress MLA from Nizamabad.
Catherine Dorion
Catherine Dorion is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the National Assembly of Quebec in the 2018 provincial election. She represents the electoral district of Taschereau as a member of Québec solidaire (QS). Dorion is aligned with Option nationale, a pro-independence faction that is a "collective" within QS.
Quvenzhané Wallis
Quvenzhané Wallis is an American actress and author. In 2012, she starred as Hushpuppy in the drama film Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012), for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress, becoming the youngest actress ever to be nominated, as well as the first person born in the 21st century nominated for an acting Oscar. She also starred as Annie Bennett in the 2014 adaptation of Annie, for which she received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical.
Manuel Pimentel
Manuel Ramón Pimentel Siles is a Spanish politician and writer. He served as Minister of Labour and Social of Spain from January 1999 to February 2000. In March 2003, Pimentel abandoned the People's Party (PP) in protest over the Irak War crisis, forming his own party, the Andalusian Forum.
Chuck D
Carlton Douglas Ridenhour, known professionally as Chuck D or Da Sneed, is an American rapper, author, and producer. As the leader of the rap group Public Enemy, which he co-founded in 1985 with Flavor Flav, Chuck D helped create politically and socially conscious hip hop music in the mid-1980s. The Source ranked him at No. 12 on their list of the Top 50 Hip-Hop Lyricists of All Time.
Jan Siewert
Jan Siewert is a German professional football manager and former player who played as a defensive midfielder. He became the Academy Manager at Mainz 05 in July 2020.
Alberto Rodríguez Caballero
Alberto Rodríguez Caballero is a Spanish TV director, screenwriter and producer.
Jeremy Scott
Jeremy Scott is an American fashion designer. He is the creative director of the fashion house Moschino and the sole owner of his namesake label. Since launching his brand in Paris in 1997, Scott has built a reputation as "pop culture’s most irreverent designer", and "fashion's last rebel".
Jean Nouvel
Jean Nouvel is a French architect. Nouvel studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and was a founding member of Mars 1976 and Syndicat de l'Architecture. He has obtained a number of prestigious distinctions over the course of his career, including the Aga Khan Award for Architecture, the Wolf Prize in Arts in 2005 and the Pritzker Prize in 2008. A number of museums and architectural centres have presented retrospectives of his work.